Principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre Polina Semionova (Dancer)

Prize-winner at several international competitions, among them the Ballet
Dancers’ Competition in Moscow (2001), the Nagoya Competition (Japan, 2002) and
the Vaganova-Prix (St Petersburg, 2002). Recipient of the Daphne
Berlin Theatre Lovers’ Prize (2004) and the Zukunft Union of German
Critics’ award (2005). She was named “Dancer of the Year” in 2007 by German
critics.

Born in Moscow. In 2002 she graduated from the Moscow State Academy of
Choreography and was invited by Vladimir Malakhov to join the Staatsballett in
Berlin, where she is currently a Principal Dancer. Her repertoire includes:
Swan Lake (Odette-Odile), Patrice Bart’s The Nutcracker
(Masha), Rudolf Nureyev’s The Sleeping Beauty (Aurora), Vladimir
Malakhov’s La Bayadère (Nikia), lead roles in the ballets
Giselle, Manon, Cinderella and Sylvia in addition to the roles
of Tatiana in John Cranko’s Onegin and Sieglinde and Brünnhilde in
Maurice Béjart’s Ring um den Ring. She has performed solo roles in
ballets by Jiří Kylián, George Balanchine, Uwe Scholz, Jerome Robbins, Roland
Petit, William Forsythe and Clark Tippet. Her partners include Roberto Bolle,
Jose Carreño, Mathieu Ganio, Vladimir Malakhov, Denis Matvienko and Igor
Zelensky.